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Bing is testing ads within organic search results. Doesn’t that pretty much destroy the definition of organic search?
That’s all.
Read the article here, at search engine land.
Would love to hear your thoughts.

Recently Google improved their image search so that when users search for given images the size is enlarged when you scroll over it with your mouse. They also started to include dates associated with images. The date identifies when an image was posted or found (X hours ago, 1 day ago).
Rather than using information to [...]

Mobile users are engaging more in check-ins. Female smartphone users between the ages of 25 and 34 make up the majority of the check-in population, according to comScore.
Although check-ins often offer “frequent flyer” points, discounts and coupons, privacy and security have been concerns of both women and men of all ages. However, people are adopting [...]

On Mashable this morning, I read a short post, How 7 Black Hat Hackers Landed Legit Jobs. First, it’s important to point out there is a difference between a “hacker” and a “black hat hacker”. A hacker is valued as a developer with precise, maybe even magician-type skills in the high tech world. Black hat [...]

After the first of the year, Google released Honeycomb – the mobile operating system created in response to Apple’s iPad, which leads in the tablet market. I talked about Honeycomb : iPad :: Latitude : Foursquare in a post back in February. For their pre-launch, Google was giving away the Honeycomb software to hardware manufacturers [...]

On Thursday, Microsoft released Bing for iPad, a free download available through the Apple App store that aims to enhance mobile search.
A new “Trends” feature, only available through this application, will allow users to take a look at popular searches on Bing at any given moment. A touch of the finger should reveal basic data [...]

As you know, Outrank reviews developments in the SEM industry on a regular basis. With that said, Google Instant, a tool that displays predictive search results as the user types, was launched September 8th for a growing number of international users on major browsers.
Once a user starts typing, Google shows search results for the most [...]